by the same token

noun

something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning.

a characteristic indication or mark of something; evidence or proof: Malnutrition is a token of poverty.

a memento; souvenir; keepsake: The seashell was a token of their trip.

something used to indicate authenticity, authority, etc.; emblem; badge: Judicial robes are a token of office.

Also called token coin. a stamped piece of metal, issued as a limited medium of exchange, as for bus fares, at a nominal value much greater than its commodity value.

anything of only nominal value similarly used, as paper currency.

an item, idea, person, etc., representing a group; a part as representing the whole; sample; indication.

Logic, Linguistics. a particular instance of a word, symbol, expression, sentence, or the like: A printed page might have twenty tokens of the single type-word “and.” Compare type ( def 8 ).

verb (used with object)

to be a token of; signify; symbolize.

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By the same token is always a great word to know.

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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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adjective

10.

serving as a token: a token gift; a token male on an all-female staff.

11.

slight; perfunctory; minimal: token resistance.

Idioms

12.

by the same token,

in proof of which.

moreover; furthermore: She has a talent as a painter, and by the same token has a sharp eye for detail.

13.

in token of, as a sign of; in evidence of: a ring in token of his love.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English tāc(e)n; cognate with German Zeichen, Old Norse teikn sign, mark. See teach

Related forms

pre·to·ken, noun, verb (used with object)

Synonyms
10. symbolic.

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token (ˈtəʊkən)

—n
1.	an indication, warning, or sign of something
2.	a symbol or visible representation of something
3.	something that indicates authority, proof, or authenticity
4.	a metal or plastic disc, such as a substitute for currency for use in slot machines
5.	a memento
6.	a gift voucher that can be used as payment for goods of a specified value
7.	(modifier) as a matter of form only; nominal: a token increase in salary
8.	linguistics Compare type a symbol regarded as an individual concrete mark, not as a class of identical symbols
9.	philosophy Compare type an individual instance: if the same sentence has different truth-values on different occasions of utterance the truth-value may be said to attach to the sentence-token
10.	by the same token moreover and for the same or a similar reason

—vb
11.	(tr) to act or serve as a warning or symbol of; betoken

[Old English tācen; related to Old Frisian tēken, Old Saxon tēkan, Old High German zeihhan, Old Norse teikn; see teach]

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Word Origin & History

token

O.E. tacen "sign, symbol, evidence" (related to tæcan "show, explain, teach"), from P.Gmc. *taiknan (cf. O.S. tekan, O.N. teikn "zodiac sign, omen, token," O.Fris., M.Du. teken, Du. teken, O.H.G. zeihhan, Ger. zeichen, Goth. taikn "sign, token"), from PIE base *deik- "to show" (see

teach). Meaning "coin-like piece of stamped metal" is first recorded 1598. The adj. meaning "nominal" is from 1915, from the noun. In integration sense, first recorded 1960; tokenism is first recorded 1962. Original sense of "evidence" is retained in by the same token (1463), originally "introducing a corroborating evidence."

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Idioms & Phrases

by the same token

In the same way, for the same reason. For example, He has a good ear for music, and by the same token he finds it easy to pronounce foreign words. This phrase today is used in a general way to connect statements that have some logical association with one another. [Mid-1400s]
As a corroborating circumstance, as in Boston's population has grown very fast, and by the same token its urban problems have also increased. [Late 1800s]

Matching Quote

"And so it goes, back and forth, good church-members all, which means that their banter contains nothing off-color, and by the same token, nothing that was coined later than the first batch of buffalo nickels."

-Robert Benchley

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